Debian: DSA-2719-1 Moderate: Poppler Arbitrary Code Execution
debian
July 11, 2013
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the poppler PDF rendering library
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the poppler PDF rendering
library.
CVE-2013-1788
Multiple invalid memory access issues, which could potentially lead
to arbitrary code execution if the user were tricked into opening a
malformed PDF document.
CVE-2013-1790
An uninitialized memory issue, which could potentially lead to
arbitrary code execution if the user were tricked into opening a
malformed PDF document.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.12.4-1.2+squeeze3.
For the stable (wheezy), testing (jessie), and unstable (sid)
distributions, these problems have been fixed in version 0.18.4-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your poppler packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
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Package: poppler
CVE ID: CVE-2013-1788 CVE-2013-1790
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